Blue Bell Public House
BLUE BELL PUBLIC HOUSE, 1, THORNGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201690
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Blue Bell Public House
- Statutory Address:
- BLUE BELL PUBLIC HOUSE, 1, THORNGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201690
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Blue Bell Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLUE BELL PUBLIC HOUSE, 1, THORNGATE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BLUE BELL PUBLIC HOUSE, 1, THORNGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnard Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 04952 16139
Details
BARNARD CASTLE
NZ0416SE THORNGATE 770-1/5/207 (West side) No.1 Blue Bell Public House
GV II
House, now inn. Late C18. Coursed squared stone with quoins and ashlar dressings; roof of concrete tiles with stone gable copings and brick chimneys. 3 storeys; 2-window range and 2-storey, one-window rear wing. Central 6-panel door in C20 porch with C18 hood. Flat roofs to C19 shallow canted bay window at left with 4-pane sashes and clasping projection at right with canted corner and C20 glazing. On upper floors, tooled stone surrounds to paired windows with stone mullions. All renewed 4-pane sashes. Roof has gable copings on moulded kneelers, and corniced end chimneys, the left red and the right yellow brick. Right return to Bridgegate has plain stone surround to 3-pane sash at rear of ground floor, and small 4-pane sash at rear of second floor with flat stone lintel and sill. Rear wing has blocked door at left, wide ground-floor sash with one-over-3 panes and small second-floor 4-pane sash with flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. End chimney on wing. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: NZ0495216139
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388835
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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